slipway
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thumb|right|Slipways in the harbour of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England thumb|Small slipway in Greetsiel, Germany, 2011
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Maintaining and repairing the hull of a ship
- Early slipways
- Early slipways in the Netherlands
- Modern slipways
- The patent slip
- The slipway after 1832
- Improvements
- Related concepts
- Slipways in ship construction
- See also
- Notes
- References
thumb|right|Slipways in the harbour of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England thumb|Small slipway in Greetsiel, Germany, 2011
A slipway is a ramp on the shore by which ships and other vessels can be moved to and from the water. They are used for repairing and sometimes building ships and boats.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “slipway” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.